1.   Their strengths in memory and spatial skills matched.

2.   But mostly, they say, the gap stems from cognitive differences that give boys better spatial skills than girls.

3.   Even the report called computers a valuable tool for children with disabilities, and it said computer games can improve the spatial skills of all children.

4.   One has a student clicking a mouse to retrieve different shapes and assemble them into a fish, building on spatial reasoning skills.

5.   Rather, they said, the gap results from a combination of factors, the most significant being the difference in spatial skills between boys and girls.

6.   Playing with shape sorters, Lego blocks or video games can improve spatial skills.

7.   She defined spatial skill as the ability to conceive of and understand the placement of objects and images in two- or three-dimensional space.

8.   She said they point to the need for a school curriculum that incorporates teaching of spatial skills early on.

9.   Surgeons, engineers and archaeologists need spatial skills.

10.   No adverse effects were found in a battery of tests in such areas as language, reading, arithmetic, spatial skills and social abilities.